There is text, both on the cards and charts (and rules, of course). For the rules and charts, GMT usually provides translations in several languages, altough not right away. Check their site for what languages are available for which games.

You don't have to use the cards in Pax Romana. There is an chart based method of generating events in the Standard Rules. The cards are used for events in the Advanced Rules. (In the Basic Rules you don't have to use events at all.)

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LuZa wrote:

Hi,how's the language dependancy of this game? Is there lotsa complex text on the cards? thanks

As Allen said, the cards themselves are optional. There is a fair bit of text on them, but many of them simply say to see the rules, where you'll find a few paragraphs of explanatory text for each of a few of the cards! So until the rules are translated, consider it not very language independent - but that's more for the length of the rules and playbook than for the cards, to be honest.

Rules, playbook, player aid sheets - there's a lot of language there. A few of the chits have a couple of words of English (Stability level, slave army, etc.), but of the actual components, only the cards have more than that.